About this podcast
Urban Radar is a podcast series brought to you by Professors Tom Goodfellow and Beth Perry, which reflects on current events and emerging trends through the lens of cities and urban life. Drawing on the unique range of urban expertise in the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester, we place urban dynamics at the centre of contemporary global affairs.
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Email: [email protected]
Instagram: @urbanradarpodcast
Credits:
Podcast production, hosting, editing & promotion: Tom Goodfellow & Beth Perry
Post-production editing & promotion: Sam Burgum
Production support: Jack Clayton
Distribution, promotion & marketing: Vicky Simpson
Music: Horizon (music by Tom Goodfellow, produced by Alan Thomson); Falling Down (music by Tom Goodfellow, performed by the Dice, produced by Alan Thomson); Ghosts (music by the Dice; produced by Alan Thompson); Kilimanjaro (music by Tom Goodfellow, produced by Alan Thompson).
Supported by the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 40 episodes
- 36-2. WRITING THE CITY - A conversation with Saima Mir about "Deliverance" · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 36In this three-part feature, we take a look at different ways of writing the city and how cities are brought into view through journalism and fiction. Recorded live at the Off the…
- 36-1. WRITING THE CITY - A conversation with Gabriella Bennett about "How to Build A City" · 1 h 8 min · Season 2 Episode 36In this three-part feature, we take a look at different ways of writing the city and how cities are brought into view through journalism and fiction. Recorded live at the Off the…
- 36-3. WRITING THE CITY - A conversation with Sufiyaan Salam on "Wimmy Road Boyz" · 56 min · Season 2 Episode 36In this three-part feature, we take a look at different ways of writing the city and how cities are brought into view through journalism and fiction. Recorded live at the Off the…
- 35. BLEEDING CITIES: Menopause, menstrual activism and urban development (+hometown tax in Japan, +architecture in Tirana, +el Nino's urban impacts, and more) · 1 h 5 min · Season 2 Episode 35In this month's episode, Beth and Tom mark World Menopause Day (18 October) through an exploratory conversation with Dr Maria Tomlinson (School of Information, Journalism and…
- 34. UNIVERSITIES AND URBAN CO-PRODUCTION: A conversation with Catherine Durose and Beth Chitekwe-Biti · 59 min · Season 2 Episode 34In this episode Tom and Beth are joined by Catherine Durose from the University of Liverpool and co-lead of the Co-production Futures Inquiry, and Beth Chitekwe-Biti, Executive…
- 33. CLEANING UP THE CITY: Waste-lands in Mumbai and Lagos (+moving capitals, +renaming cities, +urban running events and more) · 1 h 6 min · Season 2 Episode 33In this month's episode, Beth and Tom reflect on UN World Clean-up Day, inviting Deji Akinpelu (Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development (CHSD) University of Lagos), and…
- 32. INDIGENOUS URBANISM AND YOUTH: fluid geographies in Latin America, +Ceuta, +cats and dogs, +marine heatwaves, +population surge and more · 1 h 20 min · Season 2 Episode 32In this month's episode, Beth and Tom mark World Indigenous Peoples' Day and the International Day of Youth with Dr Philipp Horn, School of Geography and Planning, University of…
- 31. INSIDE URBAN STUDIES: Voices from RC21, +chokepoint cities, +Binface, +bar brawls, +polo clubs and more · 1 h 8 min · Season 2 Episode 31In July's radar, we report back from one of the major urban studies conferences - RC21 - which is held every two years in different cities across the world. Bringing together…
- 30. URBAN CHARITY RETHOUGHT: A conversation with Nicola Banks · 53 min · Season 2 Episode 30In this month's feature Tom and Beth are joined by Professor Nicola Banks from the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester to discuss One World Together, an…
- 29. BREXIT, AUSTERITY AND YOUTH FUTURES: Ten years later, +unbounding zoos, +war with Russia, +street 'goons' in Kenya, +banned flags in Oxfordshire and more · 1 h 3 min · Season 2 Episode 29In this episode Tom and Beth are joined by Professor Sarah Marie Hall from the University of Manchester to reflect on ten years since Brexit and specifically how austerity has…
- 28. RIVER/CITY: A conversation with Olivia Casagrande and Roberto Monte-Mór · 59 min · Season 2 Episode 28High up in the Andes mountain range, two rivers begin their journeys. Starting in the El Plomo hill, one becomes the Mapocho river travelling though Chile into Santiago, dividing…
- 27. MAKING A PRIME MINISTER IN MAKERFIELD? Predicting election results, +Ebola in African cities, +domestic worker activism, +global sand crisis, +housing and the World Urban Forum and more · 57 min · Season 2 Episode 27In this episode Beth and Tom are joined by Dr Lotte Hargrave from the University of Manchester to discuss whether psephology - the study of elections and voting behaviour - can…
- 26. COMPARATIVE LEARNING THROUGH COMMUNITY EXCHANGE: A conversation with Jack Makau and Temilade Sesan · 1 h 3 min · Season 2 Episode 26In this episode - recorded on location in Kampala, Uganda during an African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) workshop in late April - we delve into questions of how urban…
- 25. ASYMMETRIC URBANISM: Pushback in Portland, +Palantir in Sheffield, +dunking in Trento, +adopting cities, +Pope vs Trump and more · 1 h 7 min · Season 2 Episode 25In this episode, Beth and Tom are joined by Ryan Bellinson, researcher/civil servant living in Portland, Oregon, US, to discuss how residents and community groups can mobilise…
- 24. CHAOS AND DESIRE IN THE CITY: A conversation with Tanya Zack and Tanzil Shafique · 56 min · Season 2 Episode 24Come with us to Johannesburg and Dhaka in this month's feature. Visit the markets and stalls of Jeppe, in inner city Johannesburg, a dynamic ecosystem of informal traders…
- 23. PROPERTY AND URBICIDE: Housing in Lebanon, +Nairobi floods, +Banksy, +scam centres, +Habermas and more · 1 h 5 min · Season 2 Episode 23This month, Tom and Beth are joined by Hannah Sender, University of Sheffield, and Mariam Bazzi, Beirut Urban Lab to discuss how propertied families in small towns in Lebanon…
- 22. CRISIS, PUBLIC HEALTH & THE CITY: A conversation with Cristina Temenos · 50 min · Season 2 Episode 22In this episode Beth and Tom are joined by Cristina Temenos from the University of Manchester to discuss a wide range of issues from trust in medicine, responses to COVID-19 and…
- 21. URBAN ROBOTICS BY STEALTH: Driverless vehicles, + Epstein, + Royals, + drug cartels, + immigration and more · 1 h 8 min · Season 2 Episode 21In this episode Tom and Beth are joined by Professor Aidan While from the University of Sheffield to explore how robotic urban infrastructures are already reshaping everyday…
- 20. SEEING THE CITY: A discussion with Junia Mortimer and Felipe Magalhaes · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 20In this episode Tom and Beth are joined by visiting researchers to the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester, Junia Mortimer and Felipe Magalhães. They discuss: How can we see…
- 19. THE NEW URBAN GEOPOLITICS: Inside Caracas + urban Greenland, + embassies and disinformation in London, + neighbourhood governance and more · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 19In this first episode of Series 2 of Urban Radar, Beth and Tom start to tackle some of the many ways in which the current moment of geopolitical turmoil is filtering down into in…
